War in Val d'Orcia : An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo

War in Val d'Orcia : An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris OrigoThe bestselling diaries of WWII in Tuscany, with a new introduction by writer and social historian Virginia Nicholson, and stunning rediscovered photographsAt the height of the Second World War, Italy was being torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the eventual Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman born in England, married to an Italian kept a record of daily life in a country at war. Iris Origo's compellingly powerful diary, War in

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